Improvement in railway rail-chairs



DAVIE LOOMIS & E. RHODES, Jr.

Improvement in Railway Rail Chair.

N0.125,310. V PatentedApril2,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT DAVIE LOOMIS AND ELIAS RHODES, JR, OF CLYDE, OHIO;SAID RHODES, JR, ASSIGNOR TO SAID LOOMIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY RAIL-CHAIRS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,310, dated April2, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVIE LOOMIS and E. RHODES, J r., of Clyde, in thecounty of Sandusk y and State ofOhio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Railroad Chairs; and we do hereby declare thatthefollowingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawin g and to the letters of referencemarked thereon which form a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a railroad chair, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing. in which-Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my railroad chair. Fig. 2 isan end view, and Fig. 3 a perspective of the bars and screw-rod Ourchair is made in two equal parts, A and B-that is, bisectedlongitudinally in the center and made to lit the sides of the rails, theunder sides of the chair coming together under the rails. O'G representthe ends of the two rails, joined together by the chair A B, which islong enough to restupon two ties,. and thus connect the rails betweenthe ties. The chair is fastened to the ties by spikes through notches a.a in its edges. v One, two, or more bolts, b I), pass through each railand through the two parts of the chair to connect them together. Theyare further locked together by a device which we term a gripe,consisting of two bars, D D which are joined together endwise, as shown,by a tenon in oneand a slot in the other, so that they can be extendedand contracted, as the case may require. 011 the'outer ends of the barsD D are formed hooks E E, respectively, which fit over and grasp theedges of the chair, and they are then contracted and fastened by ascrew-rod, d, and nut e, as shown.

By taking oti' one side of the chair a rail can be removed withoutremoving the other side of the chair.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- 1. The within-described gripe,consisting of the two bars D D, connected substantially as described,provided with hooks E E, respectively, and fastened together byscrew-rod d and nut c, all as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the longitudinally-bisected railroad chair A B,rails O 0, bolts 1) b, one or more gripes, formed of the bars D I) withhooks E E, and the screw-bolt cl and nut c, all constructed and arrangedsubstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

DAVIELOOMIS. ELIAS RHODES, JR. Witnesses:

J. H. RHODES, R. It. BEMISS.

